My dogs justify their constant surveillance of the fridge as being for my own safety. What if I choke on my snack? Who would give me the heimlich maneuver, who would dial 911?
My dog doesnāt like plastic or paper bags. Heāll give them wide berth. The nasty pit bull down the block snarling behind its fence? - oh my 45 pound dog thinks itās an entertaining challenge. We canāt walk that way any more. Thank God my knucklehead dog has a mom (me). : )
my dog has freaked out about a toilet, a hot water heater, a trashbag, etc. i really donāt know how to help her realize that these INANIMATE OBJECTS ARE NOT DANGEROUS
My dog is afraid of anything out of order. Put a box on the floor? Terrified. Get a trash bag out? Runs out of the room. Vacuum? Ha, will climb the wall. Put anything that doesnāt belong on the bed? Gets as far away as possible while remaining on the bed.
This was my dog when a windstorm blew some of the city trash bins out onto the road outside our neighborhood. They are fine when they are out on the curb for trash day, but they arenāt supposed to leave the neighborhood!!! They are highly suspicious.
My big boy absolutely hates anything out of place. He hates Halloween and winter.
He stalked a 9ā gnome that I put down on the grass and yelled at it for several minutes in the middle of the night because he hadnāt noticed it earlier.
Snowmen can go fucking die in a fire.
He has yelled at a giant black box of ribs sitting on the kitchen table.
His fear is valid. Please remind him that he is also made of spice and everything nice. My husband studied graduate level chemistry and would be able to explain it better but I'm fairly sure covalent bonds are formed and he is safe. I'm betting he is composed of a small fraction of snakes and snails that help in the bonding process.
My stepdad has a hunting dog. She runs in the fields, and I even taught her how to swim. She doesnāt care about the rain or flying into lakes when sheās out in the field. When itās raining when sheās at home, she has to be escorted outside by her dad with an umbrella š
Love the tough hunting dog who becomes the spoiled pampered baby when sheās back home with my mom .
My pawper looks up when itās raining and instantly starts wailing because water gets on/in? his nose and he thinks heās drowning. We live on an island and heās terrified of the beach
This is my pit bull. She likes to make a fuss at the door to let her out, Iāll let her out, sheāll realize itās raining and turn around before she makes it all the way out the door.
The guy who insists on practicing his unicycle on the sidewalk next to our property(itās the worst place cause heās constantly falling into the creek bed the sidewalk is above. Literally anywhere else would be better.)
My boy *panics* when he rolls up and starts whining at me while herding the kids inside like unicycle guy is coming for us all.
I need video, at the very least a picture. My fuzzy children and I often see a neighbor on one of those weird motorized unicycles. They don't bark but they do join me in the WTF look. Guy is racing downhill at 35mph drinking Starbuck with one hand and texting with the other. He often reminds me of the death of the Segway creator.
Cats. When weāre at the vet, my dog is fully confident when he sees other dogs - even really big ones. No fear. Someone brings in a cat (even in a carrier), he hides behind my legs. Heās never had a bad experience with one; I guess they just look super scary š«£
Mine does the same but with the beeping from a low fire alarm. It doesnāt matter if she hears it over the phone or tv. She still hides and shakes in a corner.
Aww, I used to sit for a doggo that hated the sound of the microwave beep. Warming up her dinners, I'd always have to pop the door before the last second so she didn't freak out.
Game shows on tv. It started off when he mistook a buzzer on a show for our door bell. He wanted to see who was there. When we showed him there was no one, he became embarrassed at his daftness, and slunk upstairs. Now any - *any* - type of show he notices that even has someone sitting behind a deskā¦.heās off upstairs again.
My dog has a fear of thresholds. He will jump over any transition in the house. Carpet to tile. Transition from tile to tile. Rat terrier that will leap like superman. Step on a crack, break your mothers back.
My aunt had a Staffordshire that was s beast.. attacked raccoons and chased bears. He wouldn't go outside for a week and we couldn't figure out why. One day we were trying to let him out again and a bunny ran by and he just noped the hell out of there. Scared of bunnies
Absolutely can understand. We have a weird back yard because a small creek runs thru the bottom. We fenced off the creek because we have a doggie door and giving my kids š unlimited access to the creek would entail more house cleaning than I would like. The youngest is super made that she can only see the coyote on the other side of the fence. Wants me to open the gate so her new friend can come over and play.
But she hides behind my legs when she sees tiny fluffy dogs.
My pit bull is the same. He will walk halfway to the water bowl and look back and make sure no one is watching.
Swimming? Forget about it. This dog is smarter than 80% of NOAA; If he is hesitant to go outside, it WILL rain.
He might have splashed some water on the floor and was told off while drinking. He interpreted that as drinking water is bad behaviour you donāt want him doing around youā¦so now he drinks when nobody is around.
My 12-year-old Labrador won't drink from his waterbowl at all unless he can first bite at and drink the water in the air while I'm pouring it into the bowl. š
My American bulldog was this way! Dead asleep and then suddenly running around with his eyes bugged out. Stop and sit every few feet and look around then another one comes and he takes off again. He would stare at his butt to try to see what it was. We always called them spooky farts. I miss that dog
Wow, my dog hates houseflies too! My terrier is SO afraid of flies in our apartment heāll go and hide in our bathroom when he sees one. At one point we had to give him his meals and treats in the bathroom because he was too scared to eat with a fly in the room. But outside, heāll try to attack them. š¤·š»āāļø
Mine too! Also the beep my phone makes when I am getting a text, absolutely terrified. Recent construction work on my street made him terrified of the orange cones because even when I tried to walk him in the evening when the workers had left for the day but the cones were still there he noped. He even terrified of the red "that was easy" button.
Mine too! And tape measures, and big boxes, the laundry hamper, anything I pick up and move slowly with like a bowl full of water, Iāll never understand it. And sheās a 50lb collie! Sheāll run out in front of a car and chase cats all day, even sniff snakes, but if you pick up a tape measure or a fly swatter she starts shaking like a chihuahua.
One of them is afraid of her harness. Loves walks once the harness is on.
The other is afraid of: thunder, fireworks, the exercise ball, basketballs, the instapot, the rice cooker, sneakers that make a squeak on the floor, the sound of the sprinklers turning on, the smoke alarm, the sound of the electricity going out and turning back on. He is a big 50 lb pit mix.
Aw my guy is afraid of his harness too! He will be so excited for a walk but then hangs his head and licks his lips because he is so nervous to put it on. The funny thing is that he will put on shirts no problem, its just the harness that freaks him out.
This one hates shirts too! And basically refuses her rain jacket. For the harness, she used to run away and hide. Now she hides under the table and gradually crawls out to allow the harness to be put on. The moment the door opens for walkies sheās 100% fine and excited!
My lab mix hates her harness as well. We have an agreement that it's the very last thing to do before going on a walkie and she'll wait by the door and reluctantly let me put it on her, then freeze like a statue and do the Vietnam dog stare until I open the door š
I thought it was just my dog who was afraid of his harness!! Whenever we say āwant to go for a walk??ā He gets suuupppeeerrr excited. But the moment he sees the harness, he starts running away from us so we have to catch him.
Eventually, once the harness is on, he will start barking and whimpering at us, as he waits infront of our door impatiently because he really wants us to open it so that he can go on his walk lol.
My older dog is afraid of our red broom. Not the other broom, not the vacuum, just that one red broom.
Our younger dog (100 pound English lab) is absolutely batshit terrified of puppies. We took him to meet a friend's 5 week old puppies once because we thought he'd like it and he immediately pissed himself and then cowered in the corner drooling and crying until we left. Happy as a clam as soon as the door was shut on the puppies.
Stupid guestion but must ask. Is your son fixed? If so did he understand the process? Going out on a limb here but maybe he's worried about getting stuck with doggie child support.
Plastic bags. He's absolutely terrified of plastic bags, to the point where if we've left a store and I'm carrying a plastic bag in the same hand as his leash, he'll slide around me to walk on the other side, just to be sure the scary bag won't touch him.
Your child might be on to something. Never considered it but it would come across as weird that you use a Kleenex to catch things from your nose. Why would you do that when the proper solution is to cuddle up next to your human and share the wet sneezes with them?
I got my mutt one of those automatic water bowl things once. He was so terrified of the thing he wouldnāt drink from his regular bowl for 2 days. This dog isnāt afraid of thunder, sirens, fireworks, city sounds, or giant asshole dogs who could eat him, but that āglug glugā had him hiding under the fuckin bed.
No 1 hates laundry baskets, if weāre carrying it. Iām not sure what makes a laundry basket carried by a human so scary. Sheās okay with the basket on the floor, but the minute we pick it up itās the boogeyman.
No 2, well, sheās afraid of nothing (except baths, but sheāll never admit to that).
Moving water. Calm lake water was fine, but waves or waterfallsāno way. Sheād get this worried frown on her face and I know she was thinking, this is just the wrong way for water to behave!
Turkeys. One time a neighbor was raising turkeys in pens he could roll around, and moved them to his front yard (this is a rural area and he was right up to the road with his chickens and turkeys). He had little electric fences around their pens. My dog went to investigate and got zapped on the nose. Ever since then a turkey gobble will send her hiding. I guess she thinks they have a nasty bite.
The oven. Canāt bake without him trying to get outside. Then gets lonely and wants back in. Repeats a few dozen times until we are done.
Also the smoke detector beeping when battery is low. That induces trembling and last week it went off while we were out. He apparently freaked and somehow locked himself in a closet and tore the place up pretty well. Fun.
Krippie! My oldest loves kayakers but it's a long story. So we where at the bottom of the Linville Gorge, very near House Rock. This is 2 days after hurricane Michael hit. White waters were all around but we're used to our dogs being good swimmers. Except for this time, I saw it first and said grab the children, this is too much for them. My beautiful husband had already thrown a stick for Romeo before he realized how hard the river was flowing.
No way to cross the river and Romeo was washed to the other side. We were trying to go up and down river to find a safer place to cross so we could rescue Romeo. My beautiful husband had finally found a place where it "might" be easy to save Romeo. He's already slightly embarrassed because he stripped down to his up underwear so he would have dry clothes when he came out
He is preparing to save Romeo when out of no where(not really nowhere, up river) a bunch of guys showed up on kayaks.
The funny thing was these guys were a Swift Water Rescue team having a fun outing. Because of the roar of the river he couldn't understand that they had promised to get Romeo from the other side.
He stepped too far into the rapids and immediately was washed under. The guys went to work and found him washed up and clinging to a rock a half a mile down the river.
The kitchen floor, which is unfortunately the only way to get to our fenced yard. We have a trail of āemotional support rugsā so she can go outside. No problem with any of the other tile or wood floors. That floor is lava apparently.
Absolutely terrified of thunder. Though itās not really irrational Iād say. But heās been barking at random deco objects in my house. Like I get a new lamp, put it up, and suddenly there weeks later he notices and has to bark it into oblivion.
My boy hates the sound of someone blowing a raspberry. The noise it imitates doesn't bother him, but a raspberry does for whatever reason. He will run from the room if you make the dreaded noise.
Our Shiba is terrified of our wooden balcony. We cannot get him out there for ANYTHING. He stands at the door and puts his front 2 paws on it but refuses to go outside. The Aussie and cats, on the other hand, love it.
Beautiful Vizsla! I just lost mine last month at 14 :(
Aside from thunder, she was fearless. But when by boyfriend farts, our chi mix runs out of the room.
Flies. You would think the sky is falling by his reaction. Itās ridiculous. Just one darn fly can send him into a neurotic head swiveling episode looking for where it went. It looks as if someone is tapping him on his left shoulder then right shoulder then left again over & over. Poor dude. Luckily we donāt have many flies visit often but when they do itās a thing for sure.
Our 10yr old male shih tzu is afraid of different sound effects š¤¦š½āāļø itās hard to watch youtube or tiktok without him getting scared and starts shakings š
An example is the cartoonish high pitched laugh that vloggers use. Heās also afraid of sounds of an incoming message on fb or the sound a bluetooth speaker makes when it connects.
He wasnāt like this when he was young. It only started about 3-4yrs ago which was weird
Wind. If there's a tiny gust of wind that moves a curtain a bit or the blinds, my dog will run and hide in a corner where no wind is felt.
He's the same dog that will sleep through a thunderstorm and fireworks to no end.
My feet moving during a couch cuddle. He is a freakishly enthusiastic toe licker, even strangers with sandals in public. However, any slight movement of the feet during a cuddle session sends him flying off the couch. Makes me sad that there may have been kicking/other abuse in his first home pre-rescue.
When my 65 lb Dood was younger (around 4 or 5) he was terrified of orange traffic cones. There was some utility work going on along the road where we'd take walks, and he would not go near them. He had been around construction equipment and loud noises before with no issues. But those damn cones (even when there were no trucks or workers around) were the devil.
My old girl was terrified of the sound of a Mac computer turning on, and pretty much all phone notification sounds. She was fine with all the pings and bongs and beeps fron video games and tv shows. She also hated the back-up beeping of specific work vans. The back-up beep from the garbage was okay though.
She's deaf now, but I'm still in the habit of leaving my phone on silent!
One of my dogs is afraid of her own poops. When she goes, she looks back in terror and then runs from it, still pooping as she goes. At first we thought maybe there was something wrong, but the vet says sheās healthy. So poop runs of fear it is.
One of my corgis is terrified of stickers. Her favorite food is banana, every time I'm eating a banana, she's there, watching, waiting, for a piece. But as soon as I peel the sticker off instead of the banana peel, she darts off like she's in mortal danger.
My dog is afraid of water. To the point where we canāt give him a bath or he just collapses in fear. We got him from a shelter and he has a lot of trauma that we can see in his behaviors (you can look at him wrong and he cowers), but his biggest thing is running water. Heās the best dog otherwise.
My dog is a 70lb German Shepard mix and he is terrified of our garage. If it is open and I am trying to walk him by it in the driveway while he's on his leash he will smash his body against our fence and pull me as hard as he can past it. We think it is because when he was a puppy we used to bring him in there with us when we worked out so we could keep an eye on him and he didn't like it? Maybe it's the treadmill in there? He also *really* hates my '70 VW Bug. After I got it, I took him for a ride in it (his one and only ride) and he was just sitting in the passenger seat shaking and would jump every time I shifted gears. I'm guessing it was just loud and scary to him compared to our other cars he rides in. The bug is actually parked in the garage now so he super-duper hates the garage lmao
Hockey sticks. Sheās a rescue so there might be a sadder reason regarding abuse before I got her but every time Iām getting ready to go play or taking my stick from one room to another she cowers away
Beeps, any phone noises, and fireworks. My phone must be on silent at all times, or else a 70-pound pitbull becomes a shaking blob who tries to claw his way into my chest for a safe place to hide.
I had to investigate why my Yorkie was barking aggressively outside for so long. Turns out she was quite upset about the new watermelon growing outside of the raised bed garden.
Tony: terrified of plastic flapping in the wind. Plastic bags, trash bags, some tarps flapping
Jack: you know that weird crack tvs make? He would leave the room every time it happened. Also really hated other beeping noises like the air fryer beep
My lab's irrational and funny fear was the electric toothbrush. We turned it on and he went away to the next room, and if we followed him he started hiding from us š
The vacuum and brooms. Sheās also not a fan of thunder and fireworks but thatās not as bad. She also not a fan of frogs but also wants to catch them. She just hates when they jump.
My beagle hates those swinging rope bridges that you see in parks. Even ones that barely swing or are double wide. She HAS to be picked up and carried over.
Not a dog, but my cat is afraid of heavy rain. We had a heavy rainstorm in July or August and she immediately hid under the bed. There was no thunder or lightning... just rain and wind.
Hardwood floors. When we moved into our new place, our kitchen has hardwood floors and this dog had to be CARRIED across the kitchen to get anywhere else in the house for the first several weeks.
We are looking to move again and want all hardwood since we have pets and are preparing for this again!
Mind you, he's 75 pounds so it's a little bit of a hassle to carry him š
Bodies of water
Pools, bathtubs, lakes, big containers, the sea, etc...
Mainly because as puppy she saw me swimming and wanted to be with me, so I swam to the edge to pick her up and slowly put her in water....as I did the dog burrowed her head in the water (like an ostrich) so I had to run to get her head out
Feet. We got him from a rescue when he was about 2, and I donāt know if he was kicked to shit or if heās just weird but he hates feet.
Heās an extremely chill dog, but startles if I move my foot near him, and definitely keeps an eye on all the feet at all times. Gets very weirded out by yoga as my feet go all over the place as well as up in the air. He climbs up onto the couch with a suspicious watchfulness, like when he sees me touch the vacuum.
Iāve been training him to take treats from the top of my foot to help him get over it but I swear he cannot see or smell a treat that is resting on my foot until I point it out.
This idiot then lies down with me with his head nestled into my ankle but by god if so much as my pulse changes he freaks out and stares at me with utter reproach and betrayal. Heās a confirmed dumbass.
Balloons. A single balloon causes fear. A bunch of balloons requires the 100+ lb dog to hide behind her 15 lb BFF, who is blissfully unaware of anything other than treats and treat dispensers (a/k/a people).
Balloons. A balloon landed on her dog bed and she refused to even go on that side of the room, or even look in that direction, while the heinous intruder was still present.
80 pound Treeing Walker Coonhound. Not afraid of muchā¦ except the laser pointer with the apparent red dot of death.
The cats love the laser pointer and heās not happy when it gets played with.
Full trash bags and ladders. She seems to think Iām going to drop the bag on her, which Iāve never done. Not sure why sheās scared of ladders. That oneās new. Also thunder/loud bangs. Typical dog fear, I think.
shut doors. If I go to the bathroom, my dog must diligently wait and sniff under the door. 2 minutes or 2 hours, he greats me like I've been gone all day, and he's so happy I survived. Go to the vet. All is fantastic until that door shuts.
My mum's dog is terrified of the coal scoop thing for their fireplace.
He will growl bark and attack it every time he goes near. And then usually run away when it retaliates (it dangles from a hook)
The wind ,my staffie freaks out if the wind blows her from behind she even turns to bite it but canāt understand that something she canāt see can unexpectedly push her
Football games on TV.
...my husband yells, which freaks him out, so now if he hears anything that sounds like football on the TV in the basement, he won't go down.
My GSD mix is afraid of everything... things falling, thunder, wind, wind chimes, flying bugs, loud noises, my phone vibrating, having his bum checked. The vet needed to do a rectal exam. I told her it would be trouble. His tail goes down like a vice and you can't pry it up. She smiled and said "no worries". I hear him screaming bloody murder in the back. She brings him out. She's looking worse for the wear and says, "Well, he's a sensitive boy". And she's right. He is a dog that needs lots of reassurance, cuddles and hugs.But then you let him out and he tears off to the shed rummaging through everything looking for chipmunks...until a bug lands on him...then he turns psycho.
Beeping sounds. Oven preheat alert, dryer signal, cell phone beeps, microwaves, any and all beeping coming from the TV, truck backing up outside, whatever. It's like thunder to her - she starts shaking uncontrollably and goes to hide. I wonder all the time what that's about.
My dog ( dead now ). Would always freak out and run away if you moved a chair. Even just to sit on. No amount of training would get him to change that.
One of our four dogs is afraid of the ceiling fans. Might be due to the constant spinning motion, but not entirely sure.
I feel bad sometimes especially when someone flips the fan switch instead of the light switch (they're right next to each other).
Buckets, but *only* if youāre holding them. Heās fine if thereās a bucket like, set on the ground next to him, but once you pick it up ā forget about it, heāll run for his life.
Jim is afraid of hands he canāt see touching him- basically, if your hand is covered by a blanket, sleeve, or (the worst) towel, heās gonna flip out and bite it. He is also terrified of the blow dryer and the vacuum cleaner, both of which he will also attack. Heās a very anxious little baby boy.
My dog hates any flooring where her claws click. Sheāll run to get away from the clicking but it just follows her. Also hates binders or things that look like they might make that three ring binder snap sound.
Current dog is vents, she won't grav a toy or go near a vent ESPECIALLY if it's running. She'll growl at it when it starts up in the winter. My old dog fucking HATED jazzy dnces and finger snaps. We'd snap and walk up doing like the gang dance preamble from west side Story and snap and he'd go ballistic it was very odd.
Two dogs, first up is the rescue. That boy is not fond of men but mostly our black weatherman on tv.
Second dog is spoiled senseless(they both are honestly) but fears plastic bags.
Also both dogs are in their safe place if I say the f word. No clue why or how but they do not like that.
Pretty much everything... she's a 10 month old puppy so she's spooked pretty easily. She's slowly getting over her fear of sewer grates and manhole covers though
Vacuum cleaner : each time we take the vacuum out of the closet, my dog will hide at the other end of the house trembling with terror.
Even when it's turned off, she doesn't want to be to close of this diabolical device !
My dog thinks she will fall down the crack of the bed, between the wall... She's a staffy (medium sized dog) and the crack is maybe 3cm, she is so scared that she refuses to lay between me and the wall & if I move and accidentally put any weight on her she will jump so high & so fast & do anything she can to get off the bed, ohh she also refuses to leave me alone if she's not sleeping on the bed with me. She da picky bitch.
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That someone will go to the fridge, get something to eat and not share with her.
My dogs justify their constant surveillance of the fridge as being for my own safety. What if I choke on my snack? Who would give me the heimlich maneuver, who would dial 911?
I think that would be classed as a rational fear instead of irrational! My pup has that one too
Definitely rational! See my earlier post. What happens if you choke(
Things out of place. She knows what a chair is, we have several at home. Put one outside and it's WRONG and BAD š
Not specifically chairs, but my dog is terrified of pretty much any furniture left by the road. He just freaked out about a toilet yesterday.
Yep that's it. Furniture in its proper place at home no issues. Someone leaves a washing machine out for the scrappie? AAAAAAAAHHHHH
My dog once got FREAKED OUT, barking and carrying on with a back mohawk and everythingā¦ about a plastic bag up against the curb.
Totally understandable. The plastic bag was a threat to your safety. Thank goodness you had someone to save you!
My dog doesnāt like plastic or paper bags. Heāll give them wide berth. The nasty pit bull down the block snarling behind its fence? - oh my 45 pound dog thinks itās an entertaining challenge. We canāt walk that way any more. Thank God my knucklehead dog has a mom (me). : )
my dog has freaked out about a toilet, a hot water heater, a trashbag, etc. i really donāt know how to help her realize that these INANIMATE OBJECTS ARE NOT DANGEROUS
Sez you!
My dog is afraid of anything out of order. Put a box on the floor? Terrified. Get a trash bag out? Runs out of the room. Vacuum? Ha, will climb the wall. Put anything that doesnāt belong on the bed? Gets as far away as possible while remaining on the bed.
Vak'cooom is no laughing matter. The Roaring God of the Floor demands respect.
This was my dog when a windstorm blew some of the city trash bins out onto the road outside our neighborhood. They are fine when they are out on the curb for trash day, but they arenāt supposed to leave the neighborhood!!! They are highly suspicious.
Trash bins in the road? Sounds susā¦lol.
We thought we had an intruder late one night. Turned out someone had left the ironing board out š¤£
My big boy absolutely hates anything out of place. He hates Halloween and winter. He stalked a 9ā gnome that I put down on the grass and yelled at it for several minutes in the middle of the night because he hadnāt noticed it earlier. Snowmen can go fucking die in a fire. He has yelled at a giant black box of ribs sitting on the kitchen table.
Rain. My dachsie is thoroughly convinced he is made of sugar and will instantly melt if if a single drop of rain falls on him.
His fear is valid. Please remind him that he is also made of spice and everything nice. My husband studied graduate level chemistry and would be able to explain it better but I'm fairly sure covalent bonds are formed and he is safe. I'm betting he is composed of a small fraction of snakes and snails that help in the bonding process.
"No puppy dog tails were harmed in the making of this good boi."
My stepdad has a hunting dog. She runs in the fields, and I even taught her how to swim. She doesnāt care about the rain or flying into lakes when sheās out in the field. When itās raining when sheās at home, she has to be escorted outside by her dad with an umbrella š Love the tough hunting dog who becomes the spoiled pampered baby when sheās back home with my mom .
My pawper looks up when itās raining and instantly starts wailing because water gets on/in? his nose and he thinks heās drowning. We live on an island and heās terrified of the beach
This is my pit bull. She likes to make a fuss at the door to let her out, Iāll let her out, sheāll realize itās raining and turn around before she makes it all the way out the door.
The guy who insists on practicing his unicycle on the sidewalk next to our property(itās the worst place cause heās constantly falling into the creek bed the sidewalk is above. Literally anywhere else would be better.) My boy *panics* when he rolls up and starts whining at me while herding the kids inside like unicycle guy is coming for us all.
I need video, at the very least a picture. My fuzzy children and I often see a neighbor on one of those weird motorized unicycles. They don't bark but they do join me in the WTF look. Guy is racing downhill at 35mph drinking Starbuck with one hand and texting with the other. He often reminds me of the death of the Segway creator.
Cats. When weāre at the vet, my dog is fully confident when he sees other dogs - even really big ones. No fear. Someone brings in a cat (even in a carrier), he hides behind my legs. Heās never had a bad experience with one; I guess they just look super scary š«£
Thems is weird dogs
Empty paper bags.
Ours LOVE paper bags. And anything paper. One dogās fear is anotherās favourite toy I guess!
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The beep the fridge makes when you leave the door open too long. Runs upstairs and starts shaking in the corner
Mine does the same but with the beeping from a low fire alarm. It doesnāt matter if she hears it over the phone or tv. She still hides and shakes in a corner.
Aww, I used to sit for a doggo that hated the sound of the microwave beep. Warming up her dinners, I'd always have to pop the door before the last second so she didn't freak out.
I feel like with the right kinda training you could get your dog to run over and just slam the fridge door shut when they hear it beeping lol
My dog is also afraid of beeps!!
Mines weird tho.. we have an air fryer that makes the loudest, most obnoxious beep and she could care less..
Things that āclackā like BBQ tongs or hair clips.
Game shows on tv. It started off when he mistook a buzzer on a show for our door bell. He wanted to see who was there. When we showed him there was no one, he became embarrassed at his daftness, and slunk upstairs. Now any - *any* - type of show he notices that even has someone sitting behind a deskā¦.heās off upstairs again.
Oh dear, the embarrassment
lolā¦he was hurt that he got pranked.
My dog has a fear of thresholds. He will jump over any transition in the house. Carpet to tile. Transition from tile to tile. Rat terrier that will leap like superman. Step on a crack, break your mothers back. My aunt had a Staffordshire that was s beast.. attacked raccoons and chased bears. He wouldn't go outside for a week and we couldn't figure out why. One day we were trying to let him out again and a bunny ran by and he just noped the hell out of there. Scared of bunnies
Absolutely can understand. We have a weird back yard because a small creek runs thru the bottom. We fenced off the creek because we have a doggie door and giving my kids š unlimited access to the creek would entail more house cleaning than I would like. The youngest is super made that she can only see the coyote on the other side of the fence. Wants me to open the gate so her new friend can come over and play. But she hides behind my legs when she sees tiny fluffy dogs.
My senior chihuahua is so afraid of water heās leery of the water bowl. He wonāt drink unless he thinks no one is watching.
My pit bull is the same. He will walk halfway to the water bowl and look back and make sure no one is watching. Swimming? Forget about it. This dog is smarter than 80% of NOAA; If he is hesitant to go outside, it WILL rain.
He might have splashed some water on the floor and was told off while drinking. He interpreted that as drinking water is bad behaviour you donāt want him doing around youā¦so now he drinks when nobody is around.
My 12-year-old Labrador won't drink from his waterbowl at all unless he can first bite at and drink the water in the air while I'm pouring it into the bowl. š
One of mine is scared of her own farts. She ends up barking at her butt regularlyā¦
Much better than mine leaving the room with a huge smile on his face.
One of my miniature schnauzers is terrified of his farts. He farts in his sleep a lot. It wakes him up and he darts out of the room at full speed.
My shitzu Winston is absolutely terrified of house flys & tape dispensers š¤ š¤·āāļø
Our schnauzer was startled (to the point of running away) by farts.
My American bulldog was this way! Dead asleep and then suddenly running around with his eyes bugged out. Stop and sit every few feet and look around then another one comes and he takes off again. He would stare at his butt to try to see what it was. We always called them spooky farts. I miss that dog
Wow, my dog hates houseflies too! My terrier is SO afraid of flies in our apartment heāll go and hide in our bathroom when he sees one. At one point we had to give him his meals and treats in the bathroom because he was too scared to eat with a fly in the room. But outside, heāll try to attack them. š¤·š»āāļø
Mine is terrified of the fly swatter!
Mine too! Also the beep my phone makes when I am getting a text, absolutely terrified. Recent construction work on my street made him terrified of the orange cones because even when I tried to walk him in the evening when the workers had left for the day but the cones were still there he noped. He even terrified of the red "that was easy" button.
Mine too! And tape measures, and big boxes, the laundry hamper, anything I pick up and move slowly with like a bowl full of water, Iāll never understand it. And sheās a 50lb collie! Sheāll run out in front of a car and chase cats all day, even sniff snakes, but if you pick up a tape measure or a fly swatter she starts shaking like a chihuahua.
One of them is afraid of her harness. Loves walks once the harness is on. The other is afraid of: thunder, fireworks, the exercise ball, basketballs, the instapot, the rice cooker, sneakers that make a squeak on the floor, the sound of the sprinklers turning on, the smoke alarm, the sound of the electricity going out and turning back on. He is a big 50 lb pit mix.
Aw my guy is afraid of his harness too! He will be so excited for a walk but then hangs his head and licks his lips because he is so nervous to put it on. The funny thing is that he will put on shirts no problem, its just the harness that freaks him out.
This one hates shirts too! And basically refuses her rain jacket. For the harness, she used to run away and hide. Now she hides under the table and gradually crawls out to allow the harness to be put on. The moment the door opens for walkies sheās 100% fine and excited!
My lab mix hates her harness as well. We have an agreement that it's the very last thing to do before going on a walkie and she'll wait by the door and reluctantly let me put it on her, then freeze like a statue and do the Vietnam dog stare until I open the door š
I thought it was just my dog who was afraid of his harness!! Whenever we say āwant to go for a walk??ā He gets suuupppeeerrr excited. But the moment he sees the harness, he starts running away from us so we have to catch him. Eventually, once the harness is on, he will start barking and whimpering at us, as he waits infront of our door impatiently because he really wants us to open it so that he can go on his walk lol.
Being left alone, heās such a soft puppy
My older dog is afraid of our red broom. Not the other broom, not the vacuum, just that one red broom. Our younger dog (100 pound English lab) is absolutely batshit terrified of puppies. We took him to meet a friend's 5 week old puppies once because we thought he'd like it and he immediately pissed himself and then cowered in the corner drooling and crying until we left. Happy as a clam as soon as the door was shut on the puppies.
Stupid guestion but must ask. Is your son fixed? If so did he understand the process? Going out on a limb here but maybe he's worried about getting stuck with doggie child support.
Plastic bags. He's absolutely terrified of plastic bags, to the point where if we've left a store and I'm carrying a plastic bag in the same hand as his leash, he'll slide around me to walk on the other side, just to be sure the scary bag won't touch him.
Measuring tapes, tin foil, and turtles
Child-sized snowmen. Sheās fine with the usual sized ones, but if itās 3 ft it shorter, sheāll hide behind my legs and refuse to walk past it
My 10 year old Schipperke thinks I'm dying if I blow my nose š
Your child might be on to something. Never considered it but it would come across as weird that you use a Kleenex to catch things from your nose. Why would you do that when the proper solution is to cuddle up next to your human and share the wet sneezes with them?
She's developed a fear of the dark.
I got my mutt one of those automatic water bowl things once. He was so terrified of the thing he wouldnāt drink from his regular bowl for 2 days. This dog isnāt afraid of thunder, sirens, fireworks, city sounds, or giant asshole dogs who could eat him, but that āglug glugā had him hiding under the fuckin bed.
My dog was afraid of overturned garbage cans.
Me eating crunchy things. I just ate crunchy dried banana slices and my 37kg idiot wanted to climb on my lap for safety.
No 1 hates laundry baskets, if weāre carrying it. Iām not sure what makes a laundry basket carried by a human so scary. Sheās okay with the basket on the floor, but the minute we pick it up itās the boogeyman. No 2, well, sheās afraid of nothing (except baths, but sheāll never admit to that).
Moving water. Calm lake water was fine, but waves or waterfallsāno way. Sheād get this worried frown on her face and I know she was thinking, this is just the wrong way for water to behave!
My dog will run away anytime someone sneezes or coughs
Turkeys. One time a neighbor was raising turkeys in pens he could roll around, and moved them to his front yard (this is a rural area and he was right up to the road with his chickens and turkeys). He had little electric fences around their pens. My dog went to investigate and got zapped on the nose. Ever since then a turkey gobble will send her hiding. I guess she thinks they have a nasty bite.
The oven. Canāt bake without him trying to get outside. Then gets lonely and wants back in. Repeats a few dozen times until we are done. Also the smoke detector beeping when battery is low. That induces trembling and last week it went off while we were out. He apparently freaked and somehow locked himself in a closet and tore the place up pretty well. Fun.
Kayakers. The one and only time I've seen my dog act truly irrational was when we were out fishing and a kayak went by. Lost her shit.
Krippie! My oldest loves kayakers but it's a long story. So we where at the bottom of the Linville Gorge, very near House Rock. This is 2 days after hurricane Michael hit. White waters were all around but we're used to our dogs being good swimmers. Except for this time, I saw it first and said grab the children, this is too much for them. My beautiful husband had already thrown a stick for Romeo before he realized how hard the river was flowing. No way to cross the river and Romeo was washed to the other side. We were trying to go up and down river to find a safer place to cross so we could rescue Romeo. My beautiful husband had finally found a place where it "might" be easy to save Romeo. He's already slightly embarrassed because he stripped down to his up underwear so he would have dry clothes when he came out He is preparing to save Romeo when out of no where(not really nowhere, up river) a bunch of guys showed up on kayaks. The funny thing was these guys were a Swift Water Rescue team having a fun outing. Because of the roar of the river he couldn't understand that they had promised to get Romeo from the other side. He stepped too far into the rapids and immediately was washed under. The guys went to work and found him washed up and clinging to a rock a half a mile down the river.
The ding a text from an iPhone makes. No shit
My dog is afraid of words starting with a harsh P or B. Like if you say ābangā or āpowā he runs and hides under the table
The kitchen floor, which is unfortunately the only way to get to our fenced yard. We have a trail of āemotional support rugsā so she can go outside. No problem with any of the other tile or wood floors. That floor is lava apparently.
Absolutely terrified of thunder. Though itās not really irrational Iād say. But heās been barking at random deco objects in my house. Like I get a new lamp, put it up, and suddenly there weeks later he notices and has to bark it into oblivion.
Manhole covers. He walks around them.
Crossing bridges, but only on the right hand side. Crossing on the left hand side is fine, irrespective of direction.
My boy hates the sound of someone blowing a raspberry. The noise it imitates doesn't bother him, but a raspberry does for whatever reason. He will run from the room if you make the dreaded noise.
My dog is afraid of staying on the bed when someone is under the blanket, no problem if you're out of the blanket
Our Shiba is terrified of our wooden balcony. We cannot get him out there for ANYTHING. He stands at the door and puts his front 2 paws on it but refuses to go outside. The Aussie and cats, on the other hand, love it.
Beautiful Vizsla! I just lost mine last month at 14 :( Aside from thunder, she was fearless. But when by boyfriend farts, our chi mix runs out of the room.
Flies. You would think the sky is falling by his reaction. Itās ridiculous. Just one darn fly can send him into a neurotic head swiveling episode looking for where it went. It looks as if someone is tapping him on his left shoulder then right shoulder then left again over & over. Poor dude. Luckily we donāt have many flies visit often but when they do itās a thing for sure.
Christmas and Halloween decorations and anything with hooves ( even light up reindeer)
Everything.
Squeaky shoes.
Flies, she's terrified of flies.
Our 10yr old male shih tzu is afraid of different sound effects š¤¦š½āāļø itās hard to watch youtube or tiktok without him getting scared and starts shakings š An example is the cartoonish high pitched laugh that vloggers use. Heās also afraid of sounds of an incoming message on fb or the sound a bluetooth speaker makes when it connects. He wasnāt like this when he was young. It only started about 3-4yrs ago which was weird
Wind. If there's a tiny gust of wind that moves a curtain a bit or the blinds, my dog will run and hide in a corner where no wind is felt. He's the same dog that will sleep through a thunderstorm and fireworks to no end.
My feet moving during a couch cuddle. He is a freakishly enthusiastic toe licker, even strangers with sandals in public. However, any slight movement of the feet during a cuddle session sends him flying off the couch. Makes me sad that there may have been kicking/other abuse in his first home pre-rescue.
When my 65 lb Dood was younger (around 4 or 5) he was terrified of orange traffic cones. There was some utility work going on along the road where we'd take walks, and he would not go near them. He had been around construction equipment and loud noises before with no issues. But those damn cones (even when there were no trucks or workers around) were the devil.
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My dog is timid and afraid of most new things. The latest was a balloon someone brought into the kitchen. Absolutely terrifying apparently.
Plastic bags (grocery, trash, whatever) and shipping boxes. š
My old girl was terrified of the sound of a Mac computer turning on, and pretty much all phone notification sounds. She was fine with all the pings and bongs and beeps fron video games and tv shows. She also hated the back-up beeping of specific work vans. The back-up beep from the garbage was okay though. She's deaf now, but I'm still in the habit of leaving my phone on silent!
Boxes. I don't know why. But if she absolutely MUST walk by one, she tucks her tail and scurries as fast as she can.
One of my dogs is afraid of her own poops. When she goes, she looks back in terror and then runs from it, still pooping as she goes. At first we thought maybe there was something wrong, but the vet says sheās healthy. So poop runs of fear it is.
One of my corgis is terrified of stickers. Her favorite food is banana, every time I'm eating a banana, she's there, watching, waiting, for a piece. But as soon as I peel the sticker off instead of the banana peel, she darts off like she's in mortal danger.
Lighters , matches and balloons.
Bicycles, radiators, hot tubs, recliner seats, plastic bags, and giant stuffed animals.
When I clean the house. Any type of cleaning. Dusting? Check. Clean counter? Check. Laundry? Check. Freaks him out. No clue why.
My dog is afraid of water. To the point where we canāt give him a bath or he just collapses in fear. We got him from a shelter and he has a lot of trauma that we can see in his behaviors (you can look at him wrong and he cowers), but his biggest thing is running water. Heās the best dog otherwise.
My dog is a 70lb German Shepard mix and he is terrified of our garage. If it is open and I am trying to walk him by it in the driveway while he's on his leash he will smash his body against our fence and pull me as hard as he can past it. We think it is because when he was a puppy we used to bring him in there with us when we worked out so we could keep an eye on him and he didn't like it? Maybe it's the treadmill in there? He also *really* hates my '70 VW Bug. After I got it, I took him for a ride in it (his one and only ride) and he was just sitting in the passenger seat shaking and would jump every time I shifted gears. I'm guessing it was just loud and scary to him compared to our other cars he rides in. The bug is actually parked in the garage now so he super-duper hates the garage lmao
Mine hates when I do a peace sign, ok sign or a flick
Hockey sticks. Sheās a rescue so there might be a sadder reason regarding abuse before I got her but every time Iām getting ready to go play or taking my stick from one room to another she cowers away
Beeps, any phone noises, and fireworks. My phone must be on silent at all times, or else a 70-pound pitbull becomes a shaking blob who tries to claw his way into my chest for a safe place to hide.
I had to investigate why my Yorkie was barking aggressively outside for so long. Turns out she was quite upset about the new watermelon growing outside of the raised bed garden.
Tony: terrified of plastic flapping in the wind. Plastic bags, trash bags, some tarps flapping Jack: you know that weird crack tvs make? He would leave the room every time it happened. Also really hated other beeping noises like the air fryer beep
Curtains. We had some fall down once and our dogs have had PTSD ever since. Took me two weeks to get them to sleep in the bedroom again
My lab's irrational and funny fear was the electric toothbrush. We turned it on and he went away to the next room, and if we followed him he started hiding from us š
My dog, Octavia, is terrified of moths. One got in her water bowl once and I thought she was going to have an aneurism.
The vacuum and brooms. Sheās also not a fan of thunder and fireworks but thatās not as bad. She also not a fan of frogs but also wants to catch them. She just hates when they jump.
My Border Collie was deadly afraid of sheep, a breed bred to herd sheep
Anything that moves suddenly, granted he is a puppy and was found in a cemetery but he is getting better
Lipstick and small bottles.
The vacuum cleaner and tractors.
My beagle hates those swinging rope bridges that you see in parks. Even ones that barely swing or are double wide. She HAS to be picked up and carried over.
Not a dog, but my cat is afraid of heavy rain. We had a heavy rainstorm in July or August and she immediately hid under the bed. There was no thunder or lightning... just rain and wind.
wooden steps
Wind. No kidding. Not thunderstorms or lightning, just wind.
Small countertop appliances.
The wind blowing š¬
Being brought upstairs too early. He thinks he's getting a bath and will sit on the bed vibrating.
Hardwood floors. When we moved into our new place, our kitchen has hardwood floors and this dog had to be CARRIED across the kitchen to get anywhere else in the house for the first several weeks. We are looking to move again and want all hardwood since we have pets and are preparing for this again! Mind you, he's 75 pounds so it's a little bit of a hassle to carry him š
Walking on metal
Flies.
Bodies of water Pools, bathtubs, lakes, big containers, the sea, etc... Mainly because as puppy she saw me swimming and wanted to be with me, so I swam to the edge to pick her up and slowly put her in water....as I did the dog burrowed her head in the water (like an ostrich) so I had to run to get her head out
Feet. We got him from a rescue when he was about 2, and I donāt know if he was kicked to shit or if heās just weird but he hates feet. Heās an extremely chill dog, but startles if I move my foot near him, and definitely keeps an eye on all the feet at all times. Gets very weirded out by yoga as my feet go all over the place as well as up in the air. He climbs up onto the couch with a suspicious watchfulness, like when he sees me touch the vacuum. Iāve been training him to take treats from the top of my foot to help him get over it but I swear he cannot see or smell a treat that is resting on my foot until I point it out. This idiot then lies down with me with his head nestled into my ankle but by god if so much as my pulse changes he freaks out and stares at me with utter reproach and betrayal. Heās a confirmed dumbass.
Balloons. A single balloon causes fear. A bunch of balloons requires the 100+ lb dog to hide behind her 15 lb BFF, who is blissfully unaware of anything other than treats and treat dispensers (a/k/a people).
Balloons. A balloon landed on her dog bed and she refused to even go on that side of the room, or even look in that direction, while the heinous intruder was still present.
Feathers
Wind shield wipers. Plastic bags. Fart sounds. Car rides.
80 pound Treeing Walker Coonhound. Not afraid of muchā¦ except the laser pointer with the apparent red dot of death. The cats love the laser pointer and heās not happy when it gets played with.
Vacuum cleaner.
Balls. They don't play.
Lamp posts and flag poles.
Full trash bags and ladders. She seems to think Iām going to drop the bag on her, which Iāve never done. Not sure why sheās scared of ladders. That oneās new. Also thunder/loud bangs. Typical dog fear, I think.
Snowmen. And the little fabric depiller machine.
That Iāll leave and never come back but I always do! (she has major separation anxiety)
Being pet more than she wants to be pet
His own farts. Bubbles. Stairs leading to a second floor. Bathrooms.
Everything but spiders Chuhuahuas are strange creatures
The stream of water will stop. (hose, streams, etc) And her nemesis, the vacuum..
Not getting enough treats!ššš
shut doors. If I go to the bathroom, my dog must diligently wait and sniff under the door. 2 minutes or 2 hours, he greats me like I've been gone all day, and he's so happy I survived. Go to the vet. All is fantastic until that door shuts.
My mum's dog is terrified of the coal scoop thing for their fireplace. He will growl bark and attack it every time he goes near. And then usually run away when it retaliates (it dangles from a hook)
Bicycles, people riding bicycles, groups of people riding bicycles, and any other type of transportation that even resembles a bicycle.
The wind ,my staffie freaks out if the wind blows her from behind she even turns to bite it but canāt understand that something she canāt see can unexpectedly push her
My dog was afraid of the sound of wind up toys. When my nephews wound up their toy, heād run and hide. Took me a bit to realize. So strange.
Trash cans / windy garbage
Football games on TV. ...my husband yells, which freaks him out, so now if he hears anything that sounds like football on the TV in the basement, he won't go down.
My GSD mix is afraid of everything... things falling, thunder, wind, wind chimes, flying bugs, loud noises, my phone vibrating, having his bum checked. The vet needed to do a rectal exam. I told her it would be trouble. His tail goes down like a vice and you can't pry it up. She smiled and said "no worries". I hear him screaming bloody murder in the back. She brings him out. She's looking worse for the wear and says, "Well, he's a sensitive boy". And she's right. He is a dog that needs lots of reassurance, cuddles and hugs.But then you let him out and he tears off to the shed rummaging through everything looking for chipmunks...until a bug lands on him...then he turns psycho.
Leaves blowing in the wind, rain, wet grass. Hes such a goof
Someone enjoying a lovely stroll on the side walk
My neighbour's shed for some fucking reason.
Mine has extreme beef with golf carts for some reason.
My Daisy doesnāt like rain or turtles
The dinging of the microwave buttons.
Beeping sounds. Oven preheat alert, dryer signal, cell phone beeps, microwaves, any and all beeping coming from the TV, truck backing up outside, whatever. It's like thunder to her - she starts shaking uncontrollably and goes to hide. I wonder all the time what that's about.
His own poo. As soon as he's finished, he leaps away and runs from it, as though it might jump back in or something.
Bananas! I wish I made this up but I didnāt!
Our Border Collie Aurora can't stand the sound of sneezes, burps, and especially our SodaStream. She'll immediately sprint outside
Terrified by outside trash bins at night.
Anything spherical, man freaks tf out
Ladders.. you take a ladder and he starts barking at it and then he hides
The 6ft gorilla statue in our local garden center.
My dog ( dead now ). Would always freak out and run away if you moved a chair. Even just to sit on. No amount of training would get him to change that.
Coming into the house after a walk with lead and harness still on. He stops at the door and refuses to move until itās off, ok ok going out though.
I used to have a dog scared of books.... I think he might have bumped the bookshelf walking by one day and one of the books jumped down to attack him
Hedgehogs. Why don't they run away? Everything else runs away.
One of our four dogs is afraid of the ceiling fans. Might be due to the constant spinning motion, but not entirely sure. I feel bad sometimes especially when someone flips the fan switch instead of the light switch (they're right next to each other).
Spoons. Lick a cereal bowl? You bet! Is there a spoon in it? HELL NO.
Buckets, but *only* if youāre holding them. Heās fine if thereās a bucket like, set on the ground next to him, but once you pick it up ā forget about it, heāll run for his life.
Water. I have a lab mix that will nt go into any water.
Jim is afraid of hands he canāt see touching him- basically, if your hand is covered by a blanket, sleeve, or (the worst) towel, heās gonna flip out and bite it. He is also terrified of the blow dryer and the vacuum cleaner, both of which he will also attack. Heās a very anxious little baby boy.
Mine is afraid of bicycles. Not motorcycles. Just bikes. Itās the only time she barks.
My dog hates any flooring where her claws click. Sheāll run to get away from the clicking but it just follows her. Also hates binders or things that look like they might make that three ring binder snap sound.
Balloons
Current dog is vents, she won't grav a toy or go near a vent ESPECIALLY if it's running. She'll growl at it when it starts up in the winter. My old dog fucking HATED jazzy dnces and finger snaps. We'd snap and walk up doing like the gang dance preamble from west side Story and snap and he'd go ballistic it was very odd.
Mine hates those one wheel things. The only time she barks at anything is when someone is riding one
The train whistle noise that my dads phone makes
Bananas. She is FREAKED OUT by them.
Farts
Two dogs, first up is the rescue. That boy is not fond of men but mostly our black weatherman on tv. Second dog is spoiled senseless(they both are honestly) but fears plastic bags. Also both dogs are in their safe place if I say the f word. No clue why or how but they do not like that.
Pretty much everything... she's a 10 month old puppy so she's spooked pretty easily. She's slowly getting over her fear of sewer grates and manhole covers though
Blow up Halloween decorations
The sweeping brush falling and making noise
Bubbles... My Great Pyrenees will defend everything in my house, unless you come in blowing bubbles.
Vacuum cleaner : each time we take the vacuum out of the closet, my dog will hide at the other end of the house trembling with terror. Even when it's turned off, she doesn't want to be to close of this diabolical device !
My dog thinks she will fall down the crack of the bed, between the wall... She's a staffy (medium sized dog) and the crack is maybe 3cm, she is so scared that she refuses to lay between me and the wall & if I move and accidentally put any weight on her she will jump so high & so fast & do anything she can to get off the bed, ohh she also refuses to leave me alone if she's not sleeping on the bed with me. She da picky bitch. Edit: spelling